Migration & Refugees

Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid

By Amanda Wilson
Despite a global economic crisis, worsening employment prospects for immigrants and hardening views on immigration in the U.S. and Europe, migrant workers are sending more money home, according to a World Bank report on global remittances released Wednesday.

Andean Migrant Women Create Opportunities

By Franz Chávez and - -
Women make up a majority of migrants from South America's Andean region and they send more money home to their families than men, according to a study carried out in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

TAJIKISTAN: President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe

By Konstantin Parshin
Following a diplomatic faux pas that enraged Russia, the knives seem to be out for Tajikistan's long-time president, Imomali Rahmon.

ISRAEL: Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted "Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!", and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis.

US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women

By Kanya D'Almeida and - -
Today marks the first of "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence", a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.

Q&A: The Finer Points of Rising Sea Levels

By Rousbeh Legatis and - -
Long before the Pacific will rise to a level that will leave its estimated 30,000 islands submerged, most of them might be severely affected by frequent flooding and storms.

ASIA-PACIFIC: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily

By Rousbeh Legatis and - -
Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates.

U.S.: 2010 Saw Record Number of International Students

By Amanda Wilson and - -
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of international students studying in the U.S. increased, hitting an all-time record high, according to a report released Monday by the Institute of International Education (IIE) at the start of International Education Week.

Indonesian Migrants Facing Death Get Legal Aid from Home

By Matthew Charles Cardinale
With 221 Indonesian migrant workers facing death sentences in China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the government of Indonesia has approved a legal aid budget to assist these workers, who often do not have access to such assistance otherwise.

TAJIKISTAN: Dushanbe’s Plane Caper Not Flying with the Kremlin

By Konstantin Parshin
Memo to leaders of Central Asian nations that lack abundant energy resources: messing with Moscow usually backfires.
Rizana is a heroine for her elder sister, Rifta, as well others in Shafinagar. Credit: Aditya Alles/IPS

SRI LANKA: Alive or Beheaded this Maid is a Heroine

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Will Rizana Fathima Nafeek return to this poverty-ridden coastal village in Sri Lanka alive and in one piece? Or will the beheading sentence passed on her by a Saudi Arabian court in 2007 be finally carried out?
Dimas Rodríguez and Mariana López at an August training session for the Workers

U.S.: Helping Immigrants Fight Wage Theft

By Chelsea Apple
For many immigrants living in the U.S., a good job can be hard to come by. For those who do find employment - generally in low-paying jobs – every paycheck counts. Which is why, when a paycheck is smaller than it should be – or when it doesn't show up at all – everything comes to a halt.
Refugees say Rwanda

OP-ED: Rwandan Refugees Fear Cessation Clause

By IPS Correspondents and - -
They should be wary of each other. The historical conflict between their ethnicities has resulted in Africa’s largest genocide.
A Guatemalan family heading to the Mexican border. Credit: Wilfredo Díaz/IPS

MEXICO: DNA Databank to Identify Missing Migrants

By Emilio Godoy and - -
DNA analysis, ethical tribunals and diplomatic pressure are the new instruments that migrants' organisations are wielding to combat the abuses suffered by undocumented migrants in Mexico and the United States.
Many in the Latino community are disappointed by U.S. President Barack Obama's failure to push through comprehensive immigration reform. Credit: Valeria Fernandez/IPS

U.S.: Latinos Call for Immigration Reform, Not Record Deportations

By José Domingo Guariglia and - -
In his campaign, President Barack Obama promised to make comprehensive immigration reform a top priority – a pledge mainly directed at Latino voters.
Demonstrators with the Occupy Seattle Movement march through downtown, ending with a rally in front of the Bank of America headquarters. Credit: Tyler Stringfellow/IPS

U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? – Part 2

By Kanya D'Almeida
While the Occupy movements sweeping the U.S. have become almost synonymous with democracy, consensus-based processes, human microphones and other symbols of unity, many populations in the country have felt isolated by the language and tactics of the movement.

THAILAND: Bangkok Braces for Month of Floods

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
As the Thai Airways flight descends into Suvarnabhumi International Airport, passengers pull out cameras to snap pictures of flood waters rising inexorably and predicted to inundate the capital city by the end of the week.
Bidoun women of Kuwait. Credit: Courtesy of Refugees International

Citizens of Nowhere

By Amanda Wilson
When Mona Kareem, a member of the Bidoun population of Kuwait, was 11 years old, a neighbour Kuwaiti woman asked her where she was from. When Kareem answered, "I am from Bidoun," the woman laughed at her. "There is no country called Bidoun. There is no Bidoun."
The wall of a former barracks serving as an Immigrant Detention Centre in Málaga. Credit: Inés Benítez/IPS

SPAIN: Detained Immigrants “Are Treated Like Criminals”

By Inés Benítez
"It was very tough, like being in prison," says 29-year-old Algerian immigrant Sid Hamed Bouziane, in slow Spanish, about his 28-day stay at the Immigrant Detention Centre, or CIE, in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
In contrast to some other African leaders, president Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires completed his two five-year terms and left office last month. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten

Cape Verde Recognised for Political, Economic Leadership

By Thalif Deen
When the former president of Cape Verde, Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires, was recently awarded the five-million-dollar African Leadership prize, the ex-Portuguese colony that he headed for nearly 10 years was singled out as one of the key African success stories for "good governance", including multi-party democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights.
SPLM-N soldiers clean weapons they say they took from government forces. Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS

SUDAN: Bombing the Homeless

By IPS Correspondents
Hawa Jundi sat on the ground outside a makeshift shelter where she and her family now live. A violent storm was moving in and lightning streaked toward the earth as the wind began blowing hard against the tarpaulin tied to a frame of sticks.
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